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The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback. In 2023, Centipede Press released the first stand-alone hardcover edition.
Dec 1, 1978 · The Long Walk. Richard Bachman (Pseudonym), Stephen King. 4.08. 191,301 ratings12,802 reviews. Against the wishes of his mother, sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty is about to compete in the annual grueling match of stamina and wits known as The Long Walk.
Dec 4, 2010 · The story was The Long Walk, a gripping account of a Polish officer's imprisonment in the Soviet gulag in 1940, his escape and then a trek of 4,000...
Jun 1, 2024 · The Long Walk is confirmed to finally be made into a feature film after decades of waiting. Director Frances Lawrence, known for dystopian films, is attached to the project. The story follows a nightmarish future where Americans compete in a deadly walking challenge along US Highway 1.
In 1941, the author and six fellow prisoners of war escaped a Soviet labor camp in Yakutsk—a camp where enduring hunger, cold, untended wounds, and untreated illnesses, and avoiding daily executions were everyday feats.
The country's #1 sports contest, a grueling 450-mile marathon walk, where a single misstep could be the last . . . The cream of the nation's youth, 100 red-blooded American boys out to make it to the top no matter who they trample on to get there . . .
The Long Walk is the seventh book published by Stephen King; it is his sixth novel, and the second written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. It was first published in July 1979 and collected in the 1985 anthology, The Bachman Books.
